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From:	Savannah (sba8.sba.nau.edu)
Subject:	Re: what do you eat?
Date:	January 11, 2006 at 7:26 am PST

In Reply to: what do you eat? posted by kassiane on January 10, 2006 at 6:27 pm:

Hi Kassiane,

Here's my usual:

B: 3 oranges OR 2 oranges & 1 banana OR 1 orange, 1 banana & 1.5 C blueberries

L: vegetable stew/soup (I usually take a recipe and triple the vegetables to help me get the 1 lb cooked veggies in). Occasionally potatoes or corn make it in to the soup to add a little starch. Sometimes I take a bag and a half of frozen veggies for lunch to microwave (in a glass bowl, not plastic, of course!). Maybe a couple of nuts.

D: Huge salad (1 head of romaine or green leafy lettuce, various leaves of kale, collards, spinach, arrugula etc, cucumber etc), handful of nuts, a few raisins with a bean based salad dressing

I try to remember the 1 tbs flax but forget it more often than not. I also take B12 daily, Iodine 3x a week, and vitamins D and B2 once a week (the D is because I eat no 'fortified' foods and during the winter I get almost no sun; the B2 is an individual thing -- I tend to get the cracks on the sides of my mouth without it...an absorption issue maybe).

I have tried omitting the nuts to increase weight loss (as DF says you may) and it works....until it doesn't. Then I get cravings and get preoccupied with food until I fix the problem by adding in some healthy fat in the form of nuts. I've tried omitting starch and that works also....until it doesn't. Same thing happens: I get cravings until I add a little starch here and there for a few days, then it subsides (for me it's usually potatoes in a stew, a cooked yam, or oatmeal).

Bottom line: my experience is that DF's way of eating is the best I've ever tried (and I've tried a lot), and I still need remember to listen to my body, as well.

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